A&M Audiophile ?LP SPJ-4245: Herb Alpert's Greatest Hits - 1981 CANADA Ltd. Ed.
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Background -
Known for his mariachi-inspired easy listening sound, trumpeter Herb Alpert is one of the most successful instrumental performers in pop history. He is also one of the entertainment industry's canniest businessmen, having co-founded A&M Records -- a label that ranks among the most prosperous artist-owned companies ever established -- with partner Jerry Moss. Emerging in the early '60s alongside his group, the Tijuana Brass, Alpert quickly established himself on the charts with Top Ten hits like the title track to 1962's The Lonely Bull and the Grammy-winning "A Taste of Honey" off 1965's Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Prior to landing his own hits, Alpert had already teamed with fellow future industry titan Lou Adler to co-write a number of singer Sam Cooke's most enduring hits, including "Wonderful World" and "Only Sixteen." They also produced tracks for the surf duo Jan & Dean. However, it was with the founding of A&M in 1962 that Alpert's career took off. Launched out of Alpert's garage, A&M grew to become the world's biggest independent label, showcasing artists like the Carpenters, Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker, and Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. Nevertheless, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass remained the label's flagship act, popularizing his Latin-influenced "Ameriachi" sound and scoring hits like "Spanish Flea" (off 1965's Going Places) as well as Alpert's classic 1968 vocal version of Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love with You," which became his first number one hit single. Multiple Grammy Awards also followed, including two for 1967's "What Now My Love." As the sound of pop music evolved, so did Alpert's approach, as he embraced soft rock, disco, and R&B on 1979's Rise. From the '80s onwards, albums like 1983's Blow Your Own Horn, 1992's Midnight Sun (his last for A&M after selling the company), and 1997's Passion Dance showcased his continued love of jazz, adult contemporary pop, and Latin traditions. He has also branched out into other avenues, earning respect as an abstract painter and founding his own philanthropic Herb Alpert Foundation in support of youth arts and education. Although he has periodically taken time off from performing, Alpert remains a vital studio and live performer, often pairing with his wife, vocalist Lani Hall, for albums like 2011's I Feel You and 2016's Grammy-nominated Human Nature.Born March 31, 1935 in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, Alpert grew up in a family of Jewish heritage with parents who had immigrated to the United States from Ukraine and Romania. Although his father worked as a tailor, he was also a gifted mandolin player. Alpert's mother also taught violin lessons, and both Herb and his brother David (a drummer) were introduced to music at a young age. Alpert first started out taking trumpet lessons at age eight, and by his teens was playing in dance bands and experimenting with recording equipment. Graduating high school in 1952, he did a two-year stint with the Sixth Army Band, after which he enrolled at the University of Southern California. While there, he spent two years as a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band. It was during this period that he befriended Lou Adler, teaming with the budding lyricist and music impresario for a series of songs at Keen Records. Together, they scored several Top 20 hits, including Jan & Dean's "Baby Talk" and Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World." Working under the name Dore Alpert, the trumpeter also recorded his first album as a singer, issuing "Tell It to the Birds" on his and partner Jerry Moss' Carnival Records in 1960. Realizing the Carnival name was already in use, Alpert and Moss renamed their label A&M.
In 1962, Alpert released The Lonely Bull, his first album billed under the Tijuana Brass. Recorded cheaply in Alpert's garage as well as at Conway Recording Studio in Hollywood with members of the Wrecking Crew, the album found him experimenting with overdubbing his trumpet lines to create a full brass band sound. The album's title track, a song written by collaborator Sol Lake and purportedly inspired by Alpert's experience seeing a bullfight in Mexico, became a number six U.S. hit. Following 1963's Volume 2, Alpert scored his first Top Ten hit album with 1964's South of the Border, a further collection of mariachi-influenced arrangements and pop covers by the Beatles, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and others.
Released in 1965, Whipped Cream & Other Delights found Alpert and the Tijuana Brass moving away from their early Mexican-themed sound and more fully embracing an easy listening vibe, and included the singles "A Taste of Honey," "Whipped Cream," and "Lollipops and Roses." Largely considered the group's most popular and recognizable album, it sold over six million copies in the U.S., and hit number one on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Arriving the following year, What Now My Love also fared well, remaining at number one for nine weeks. More number one albums followed for Alpert, including 1966's S.R.O., 1967's Sounds Like, and 1967's Herb Alpert's Ninth.
In 1968, Alpert scored his first number one single (and the first number one for A&M) with a rare vocal turn on a rendition of Burt Bacharach's romantically laid-back anthem "This Guy's in Love with You." Included on the album Beat of the Brass, the song remained on top of the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart for four weeks. The album also hit number one on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, becoming Alpert's fifth and final number one LP. Warm followed a year later, and featured an even more languid, Brazilian-influenced sound. It would be the Tijuana Brass' last album to crack the Top 40.
As A&M continued to thrive throughout the early '70s, Alpert shifted his focus somewhat from making his own music to his label duties. In 1973, he also wed former Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 singer Lani Hall. Nonetheless, he regularly recorded, issuing albums like 1974's Quincy Jones-arranged You Smile, the Song Begins, 1975's Coney Island, and 1976's Just You and Me. He also paired with famed South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela on 1978's Main Event Live. In 1979, Alpert issued Rise, which found him embracing a sophisticated jazz, funk, and disco-influenced sound. One of his earliest albums co-produced with nephew Randy "Badazz" Alpert, it reached the Top Ten, largely buoyed by the hit title track.
Alpert's 1980 album, Beyond, was also a Top 40 success. It was followed by 1982's Fandango and 1985's Wild Romance, both of which found him further embracing a smooth crossover sound. Released in 1987, Keep Your Eye on Me included the Top Five single "Diamonds," which featured a guest vocal from Janet Jackson, one of A&M's major successes of the decade. In 1986, Alpert also established the Herb Alpert Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to establishing educational, arts, and environmental programs for children.
Following the sale of A&M to PolyGram in 1990 for a sum in excess of $500 million, Alpert and Moss founded Almo Sounds in 1994. Among the artists they signed were luminaries including Garbage, Gillian Welch, and Imogen Heap. Alpert issued 1991's North on South Street and 1992's Midnight Sun as his final A&M albums before moving to Almo Sounds. There, he released 1997's Passion Dance and 1999's Colors. Also during this period, he branched out into artistic venues, exhibiting his abstract expressionist paintings and co-producing a number of Broadway successes, including Angels in America and Jelly's Last Jam.
In 2007, Alpert and Lani Hall began touring regularly and recording together, releasing 2009's Anything Goes and 2011's I Feel You. The albums found the duo touching upon various aspects of their careers, including jazz standards, Brazilian and Latin music, pop songs, and reworkings of classic hits. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in 2012.
In 2013, Alpert and Hall released the third of their albums together, Steppin' Out, which also featured keyboardist Jeff Lorber; the album won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album in January of 2014. Also that year, Alpert released the electronic dance-infused project In the Mood. The following year, he returned with yet another stylistically varied collection of originals and cover songs, Come Fly with Me. In 2016, Alpert delivered his third album of electronic-tinged tracks, Human Nature, which garnered him yet another Grammy nomination. He quickly returned with 2017's Music, Vol. 1, recorded with producer Jochem van der Saag (Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé). Along with originals, the album featured reworkings of the Beatles' "Michelle" and John Lennon's "Imagine." The holiday-themed The Christmas Wish also arrived in 2017, followed a year later by Music, Vol. 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines the Tijuana Brass. - Matt Collar
Released in 1970, a bit too late to capitalize on the Tijuana Brass at the peak of their appeal, this early hits collection compounded the error of its tardy timing by only including selections from the TJB's first five albums. Still, since the CDs of three of the five albums are currently out of print, this can serve as a decent, if brief, overview of the development of Herb Alpert's vehicle from its clever ethnic novelty beginnings into a cosmopolitan septet that could actually bridge the yawning generation gap of the 1960s. - Richard S. Ginell
With its cinematic mix of dramatic brass fanfares, crowd noise, chorus, twangy guitar, and mandolins, "The Lonely Bull" was as much a novelty as an instrumental hit, but it served as an ideal launching pad for Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass. During the 1960s, they created some of the most popular instrumental music of all time, blending catchy tunes, Mexican dance rhythms, and a lively brassiness. "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi" may best define the style, but Alpert possessed keen insight into the tradition of lighthearted danceable music, touching on swing in "Getting Sentimental over You," and doo-wop in Leiber and Stoller's "Love Potion No. 9." The movie themes "Never on Sunday" and "Zorba the Greek" tie the music even more strongly to the '60s, while expanding the group's inclusion of ethnic themes and sunny climes. It's the lightheartedness that ties this material together as much as the trumpets and trombones. Even "A Taste of Honey," a tune given moody treatment by everyone else who recorded it--from the Beatles to jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris--becomes irresistibly cheerful. The playing time of the CD is brief--little more than a half-hour--but it contains all hits, no filler. — Adam Rains
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A&M AUDIOPHILE Records LP item - Light GRAY record labels with BLACK lettering
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Record Made in CANADA
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Pressing is in STEREO - originally issued on the A&M Record Label, in 1970
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Limited Edition and HALF SPEED Mastered LP
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Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm
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Record Made issued in: 1981
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Record Catalog Number: SPJ 4245
Featured on this item:
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Title of this Audiophile LP -
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Greatest Hits
Track Listings -
A1. Lonely Bull - Written-By – Sol Lake - 2:29A2. Spanish Flea - Written-By – Wechter - 2:07
A3. Getting Sentimental Over You - Written-By – Bassman - 1:59
A4. Love Potion #9 - Written-By – Leiber - Stoller - 3:02
A5. Never On Sunday - Written-By – Towne, Hadjidakis - 2:38
A6. Mexican Shuffle - Written-By – Sol Lake - 2:38
B1. Taste Of Honey - Written-By – Scott, Marlow - 2:43
B2. Tijuana Taxi - Written-By – Ervan Coleman - 2:13
B3. South Of The Border - Written-By – Kennedy, Carr - 2:06
B4. America - Written-By – Bernstein, Sondheim - 2:45
B5. Whipped Cream - Written-By – Naomi Neville - 2:33
B6. Zorba The Greek - Written-By – Theodorakis - 4:25
Performed By / Credits / Other Information on this LP -
• Manufactured & Distributed By – A&M Records Of Canada Limited
• Lacquer Cut At – JVC Cutting Center
• Lacquer Cut By – Joe Gastwirt
• Producer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Part of the A&M Audiophile Series. Half-speed mastered.
Made in Canada.
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched): SPJ-04245-A + + ?418 JG/2
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped): JVC JAPAN SLM 121 +
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched): SPJ-04245-B2 JG/2
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped): 111 +
CONDITION Details:
LP Jacket:-
The jacket is in Near MINT minus condition - no seam splits!
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The jacket has NO splits of any kind - it is completely solid and intact, and shows only some very minimal shelf wear along the seams and corners.
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It has NO cut out marks of any kind.
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There is NO writing on the front or back of the jacket.
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The cover has clean and sharp colors - see picture with this listing for more detail.
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The LP is in Near MINT minus condition - super glossy and appears like it's been seldom played! There are a couple of very light spider marks on the vinyl, nothing serious. These types of marks may sound on some systems depending on the sensitivity of your audio gear.
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This is the copy you want for your collection - most picky audiophiles would be happy with this one!
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As for any record, even brand new, sealed ones, we always recommend a proper record cleaning before playing!
A Short Note About LP GRADING -
- Mint = Only used for sealed items.
- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
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